Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have come up with a way to give robots the sense of touch using artificial skin. CBSNews.com's Nick Dietz reports on the invention, which could dramatically improve the lives of people with severe disabilities...

A month after undergoing a public mammogram on the ABC morning show, the “Good Morning America” correspondent Amy Robach announced she had breast cancer. Robach discussed her double mastectomy and the importance of mammograms in this recent interview.

The doctor isn't in, but he can still see you now. Remote presence robots are allowing physicians to "beam" themselves into hospitals to diagnose patients and offer medical advice during emergencies. A growing number of hospitals in California and other states are using telepresence robots to expand access to medical specialists, especially in rural areas where there's a shortage of doctors...

There's a program in Spain that aims to keep elderly people healthy and out of the hospital. It allows patients to track their own health parameters and share critical data with clinicians. The program, which includes Xbox Kinect-powered exercise routines, has apparently helped prevent thousands of hospital visits...

Doctors see it all the time -- and sometimes experience it too. CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook talks with medical student Loren Galler Rabinowitz about how often this happens, and how to tell the difference...

One patient had a glioma, or a type of tumor that arises from the brain and normally stays in the brain. To deal with the tumor, Dr. Michael Vogelbaum opted to remove the tumor while the patient, Matt, was awake. Dr. Vogelbaum discussed the patient's situation and the procedure in this video...

Together as only a family of two, Nona Willis-Aronowitz and Aaron Cassara make more than the $62,000 level to qualify for subsidies under Obamacare. But if they lived together, unmarried as individuals, they qualify for the subsidies and potentially could save hundreds of dollars a month. Now the couple is considering divorce...

On Tuesday, Deb Cohan went into surgery to have her breasts removed. But before the surgery, she and her medical team threw a pre-op dance party (to Beyonce's "Get Me Bodied") in the operating room at the University of California-San Francisco Medical Center at Mount Zion. The dance party was captured on video...

Imagine a website like eBay that offers surgeries and medical procedures instead of electronics or household goods. A new site called MediBid.com gives patients the ability to choose from a handful of bidding doctors in order to find needed procedures at reasonable prices...

Hundreds of thousands of people suffer from the potentially life threatening C. difficile bacterial infection in their intestines. However, many patients are resorting to fecal transplants to combat the highly antibiotic-resistant bacteria -- an unusual and controversial treatment...

Dr. Jon LaPook updates a report on a little boy who is making big strides after he went through an extraordinary medical procedure. In April he became the first child in the U.S. to receive an auditory brain stem implant as part of an FDA approved clinical trial...